Posted on 06/21/2019 9:26:36 AM PDT by reaganaut1
When college officials violate people’s rights, they run the risk of bringing on lawsuits that can cost their schools a lot of money. The most common instance has been hyper-aggressive Title IX actions where the accused student was presumed guilty and railroaded into suspension or expulsion and later successfully sued
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Higher education leaders around the country should learn from this case.
One thing they should learn is that the large numbers of administrators they employ who see their jobs mainly as “social justice warriors” are a danger. They can embroil the school in costly legal proceedings when they fail to separate their proper functions in an educational institution from their zeal for political change.
Perhaps trustees should insist on a training session for everyone from the president down to dorm administrators so they will understand that there is a line between education and activism (many obviously believe otherwise) and where it is drawn.
Another lesson here is that many Americans have no patience for the sort of wild, unfounded accusations that “progressive” students, faculty, and administrators like to throw around. When those people sit on juries where the damage done by campus activism is at issue, they are apt to find for the plaintiff in a big way. And it simply makes matters worse to complain about those jurors, as Oberlin did after the announcement of the compensatory damage award.
It does not seem, however, that Oberlin’s new president, Carmen Ambar, has learned anything. She declared to The New York Times that Gibson’s policies were to blame, that the case is “not over,” and the result “will not sway us from our core values.” If those “core values” include defaming and damaging a business merely to signal “progressive” virtue, then there will probably be more suits like Gibson’s.
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Once upon a time, educators approached issues with the question, “What can we learn from this?”
Today, the academics approach everything with this attitude: “Stick to the narrative. The revolution is everything. Do not change. March forward.”
Leftists are unteachable; their minds are closed like steel traps. Facts, evidence, logic, and objective truth mean nothing to them.
Useful Idiots!
Who is your candidate for 2020?
Yep. They will learn nothing. The teachable moment will be how evil the system is for daring to punish them by holding them to real world standards.
University elites don’t care. They spend other people’s money, have tenure protection, and are surrounded exclusively by fellow radical progressives.
The University of Missouri lost 20% of its enrollment over social warrior nonsense and nobody cares, and nobody was held to account.
Forget it; these one-cells are incapable of learning.
Uh, the trustees are the ones putting and/or allowing their choices to destroy the institution.
For instance, at Boston U., when John "Herr Doktor" Silber retired, one trustee wanted DC connections, so he pushed and got the lackluster former NASA director Dan Goldin, who lasted a month or so, and was paid off with $2M.
The attitude of that trustee when questioned about the contract payoff was "So? Two mill wouldn't equip a lab..."
Harvard had the plagiarist Doris Kearns Goodwin, MIT has/had that anti-American Pepsi executive, etc.
Oh, and Dartmouth changed the ability of alumni to have a voice on the board after their picks refused to stick their heads up their butts and water down the standards and the purpose of higher education.
“Stupid SHOULD hurt!”
I effing HATE this “teachable moment” BS phrase. It makes my blood boil on how Obozo used this to excuse him disparaging that LEO in Mass.
That, and “have a conversation”. Both are ridiculous.
Senior university staff are supposed to be the adults in the room, literally. These acted, and continue to act, like superannuated adolescents aflame with righteous fury at the drop of a hat. Until boards start firing them this sort of thing will continue, because it costs them nothing and strokes their bloated egos.
Nothing will change. They will continue to seal themselves inside their bubble of ignorance, arrogance, and hatred- all the while trumpeting their own sense of intellectual and moral superiority and destroying any who dare to challenge their corrupted system. The dean of Oberlin made that clear with her post-judgment memo.
Defund the universities and colleges. Why should we give our money to people whose hatred of America and the Constitution is so violent and corrosive?
<><> Title 18 U.S.C. §1341, Mail Fraud, 18 U.S.C.§1001, Presenting a False Document to an Agent of the US Government for funding (may involve several felonies and could include forgery);
<><> 18 U.S.C.§1027 False statements and concealment of facts in relation to documents required by ERISA enacted 1974 and other possible offenses including civil and/or criminal RICO violations.
<><> 18 U.S.C. §§1961-68 (RICO Act)18 U.S.C. §1001 (making false Statements to Agents of the US Government,
<><> 18 U.S.C. §241(Conspiracies Against Civil Rights). Violation of Civil Rights under Color of law and conspiracy. Conspiring with others to violate 4th amendment rights.
<><> Possibly full investigations centering on RICO conspiracies under 18 U.S.C. §1962(c) could be warranted because (1) the persons (2) were employed by or associated with a public enterprise (3) that engaged in or affected interstate commerce and that (4) the persons operated or managed the enterprise (5) through a “pattern” (6) of racketeering activity, and (7) the taxpayers were injured by reason of the “pattern” of racketeering activity.
<><> Alleged Offenses could include Violation of Rights – which prohibits in relevant part, “two or more persons (from conspiring) to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District
<><> Title 18 U.S.C. §2 41 – Conspiracy Against Constitutional mandates in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of having so exercised the same . . .” See, 18 U.S.C. §241.
Voters should demand the following agencies commence investigations at once:
<><> FBI — Wire Fraud Division
<><> IRS-Fraud Unit
<><> Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General,
<><> Department of Commerce’s Office of Inspector General.
<><> DOJ’s Criminal Division— Public Integrity Section
<><> DOJ Criminal Division—Organized Crime and Gang Section.
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CASE IN POINT The state of Georgia tried convicted and jailed 27 corrupt educators under this law.....
<><> for falsely taking public money,
<><> for falsifying official school records, and so on.
BACKSTORY The 1980 Georgia General Assembly was concerned about the increasing sophistication of various criminal elements on the public payroll (and those in elective and appointive office). the increasing sophistication of various criminal elements on the public payroll (and those in elective and appointive office). The Georgia General Assembly then adopted the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), patterned after a similar federal law. (RICO is routinely used to try to prove that a legal business was being used for illegal means, and, in at its inception, RICO was used to prosecute drug traffickers or organized crime members).
In recent years prosecutors have applied RICO to crooked government officials: (1) those accused of using their public offices for personal gain, and, (2) tax-paid officials of govt agencies using public monies to flout the law. To bring a case under Georgias RICO law, there must be at least two underlying felonies such as fraud, bribery, witness tampering (among other felonies). RICO allows prosecutors to include multiple defendants charged with various crimes in the blanket indictment, and to charge that govt employees, publicy-funded and publicly-sanctioned entities were allegedly part of an ongoing criminal enterprise.
EXAMPLE A govt official commits two felonies by (1) accepting, and, (2) filing falsified documents.
ITEM---Any public official using tax dollars to flout that law is a lawbreaker.
ITEM-- in cases where govt officials on the public payroll not giving public notice is a violation at the federal level of the 1946 Administrative Procedure Act, which requires notice in the Federal Register. Laws demand that taxpayers have the opportunity to submit views in writing.
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If proof is established that RICOed criminal public officials impaired the region's commercial and economic activity, that could also be prosecutable under the Hobbs Act.
Liberals have attempted to engineer a world for themselves in which they are free from consequences: abortion, homosexuality, pedophilia, depravity, drugs, alcohol, illegitimacy, overspending, etc.
They couch it in all manner of anodyne terminology: choice, pride, sexual freedom. If they can’t make it a positive, they attack anyone who disapproves as a prude, judgmental, a hater, etc.
Among the many problems they created for themselves was the parasite class. These are people who aren’t all that interested in the high-minded talk - they just want their check. Or booze. Or drugs. The three Oberlin ‘students’ were lab-perfect parasites. Violent ones.
The mass delusion has also resulted in the current state of affairs in which amoral people believe they are the most moral among us. They’ve gone from ‘leave us alone’ to ‘we won’t leave you alone.’ (hat tip relictele)
“She declared to The New York Times that Gibson’s policies were to blame, that the case is ‘not over,’”
I would think that $44 million would encourage her to stfu already. Guess not. It’s an expensive lesson, and she learned nothing. I wonder how the alumni feel about that, especially the high-end donors.
The real world standard will hit them when their liability insurer declines to reimburse Oberlin for $33 MILLION. Heh, heh.
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